National Cemetery monuments getting much-needed repairs

1:05 PM,
Jun. 18, 2013

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Written by

Dan Holtmeyer
DHOLTMEYER@NEWS-LEADER.COM

Three century-old monuments in Springfield's National Cemetery are getting what the cemetery director said are long-needed repairs.

The bronze statue honoring Confederate Gen. Sterling Price, as well as the Union Memorial with its lone infantryman gazing down on the cemetery entrance from Seminole Street, are part of the effort. A smaller marble pillar honoring Gen. Nathaniel Lyon is also being worked on.

The Union Memorial is oldest, built shortly after the Civil War in 1873. Lyon's Memorial went up a decade later, while Price's monument was added in 1901 to honor the Confederate ...